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Jerry Sobieski, Director for International Reserach Initiatives Americas & Asia Pac
Jerry is responsible for:
- Being the main driving force in expanding the International Research Collaboration between the Nordic Countries and global key Research Initiatives and evangelizing the achievements of the Nordic NREN Community and the benefit of working with NORDIC Scientists.
- Working with global partners facilitating potential projects, contacts and research initiatives to the Nordic NREN community within:shops and cooperation within:
- eInfrastucture
- Global Network integration and Network Provisioning Research
- eScience
- Astronomy
- High Energy Physics
- Environmental Research
Jerry Sobieski joins NORDUnet from a positions as Director of Research Initiatives for the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), a consortium of almost 50 research and higher education institutions in the Washington, DC region. He was responsible for developing strategic and multi-institutional network research programs that address the needs of the next generation of globally distributed "e-science" applications.
Jerry headed up the NSF DRAGON Project, an experimental optical testbed in the Washington DC metro area developing GMPLS based dynamic hybrid service architectures. Besides his work on DRAGON, Jerry also headed up the Testbed Support Center for the Internet2 Hybrid Optical/Packet Infrastructure (HOPI) - a US national research effort funded by the Internet2 organization exploring next generation internet architectures. His team also supported the Global Information Grid Experimental Facility (GIG-EF) - a DoD funded advanced technology testbed also in Washington DC. Jery Sobieski served on the Internet2 Technical Advisory Committee for the Abilene network, and the Design Team for HOPI.